New rep colors, and another forum upgrade

[complich8]

TL;DR: COLORS!!!


On Sapphire's suggestion and with Kraco's help on making some new colorful boxes, I've implemented a change to the rep display system. Now it fills bars, then replaces them with the next higher value ones. From lowest to highest, the colors are:

dark green
light green
dark blue
light blue
purple

Also, heads-up, sometime tonight I'll be knocking the forums down for a couple minutes to upgrade vbulletin again. Should be minor, already tested it out in a dev instance, but probably 15 minutes or so.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum activities...

[Archangel]

Would be interesting... if the reputation feature wasn't completely and utterly dead.

Then again i guess this might arouse interest in it again? I doubt it, but lets hope.

[complich8]

Ehh, there seemed to be some interest. Of course, probably none from you...

[Archangel]

Probably from Sapphi and whoever else she got to annoy.

[Sapphire]

I feel alienated from all my purple bretheren, now. :(

[Assertn]

Just more class warfare

[Carnage]

Too many colors all over the place, I liked just having it green.

[Alhuin]

I'm not opposed to the introduction of more rep levels (since I never posted enough when it was dynamic and new in order to raise my own to max, so this may give me a fighting chance!), but I have to agree that there may be too many colours now. The light blue and purple looks fine, but I think the dark blue draws too much attention/sticks out too much.

Nice update in any case, though!

[complich8]

Fair enough. We're gonna let it sink in a bit, then see how people feel about it and what else we might do to make it better.

Meanwhile, the forum upgrade piece I mentioned is done. Let me know if you notice any weird theme regressions or anything broken that wasn't before!

[Kraco]

Blue was on purpose quite a rare colour here, both before and after the major forum engine upgrade a year ago. Now it's only present in the little arrows on the forum views and nowhere inside the threads themselves - or that was the case before this reputation meter change. I believe that's one reason why they might catch the eye so easily, at least in the beginning.

With the icons only a handful of pixels in size, I went for near maximum contrast. If it turns out a real concern on the long run that they are too attention catching (breaking the harmony), I'll adjust them.

[Buffalobiian]

I didn't realise Kraco was that far ahead. Fuck.

[David75]

I didn't realise Kraco was that far ahead. Fuck.
e-peen shrink?
:D

[Sapphire]

e-peen shrink?
:D

All of our e-peen's have thus shrunk on this day.

[Alhuin]

All of our e-peen's have thus shrunk on this day.

^This. Some more than others... >_>...

Hey, so... I have a question. If the rep levels/colours have changed, when exactly does one obtain a custom title now? That's been a goal of mine for the past couple of years now, and I felt like I was close.

[darkshadow]

the custom title is based on what your rep bar says(mouseover), I'm not exactly sure when it unlocks though.

[Sapphire]

I don't think anyone changed how many points you need to get a custom title.

[Animeniac77]

custome title= that lil title under your username? o.o (been wondering how ya change it o.o)

[darkshadow]

http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread.php/11996-New-Titles!?p=494321&viewfull=1#post494321

[Animeniac77]

ah so it unlocks after a certain amount of posts/ranking...got it (thx for the link btw, was helpful)

[dragonrage]

I don't think the color overlay really goes well together, not all that least. Just look at mine, it's an eye sour to a very clean and serene looking forum.

[Sapphire]

Level up then, yo!

[dragonrage]

lol, that made me laugh. It's not a game where you can "level up" through your own effort, it's dependent on what people determine to be a good post and is totally voluntary. The system isn't as active as it once was nor was it ever used for the intended purpose. It became a tool for circling jerking and e-penis status.

But I do complement the effort to improve the forums.

[complich8]

yeah, the light green->dark blue transition is a bit jarring. Maybe a lower-intensity version would ease that up a bit...

[Kraco]

I could have a look at the colours this coming weekend. Green/blue is obviously no problem to differentiate under most circumstances; it's the blue/blue difference that made me seek quite glaring shades.

[Kraco]

Alright. The darker blue has been adjusted slightly. Dunno if you need to refresh your browser caches manually to see the change or if it refreshes after a while automatically. The new blue was judged better by a statistically significant group of two people and thus deemed an immense success.

Naturally, after a while you won't remember how bad the old blue looked like and can start to complain about this new one as well.

[Alhuin]

The new blue is still a little jarring when combined with the green, but it looks much better than the older, darker blue. Thanks for changing it.

[Buffalobiian]

Will changing blue for yellow do much good? Or will that look too much like a yellow card?

[Sapphire]

We decided against yellow because yellow means evil.

If you don't like blue over green then level up faster, biatch!

[Buffalobiian]

Only other colour I can think of is aqua then, if you were still thinking about addressing this.

[Kraco]

Did the rep colours reset to the default ones during the move to your own server, Complich?

[Buffalobiian]

lol.. I didn't even notice until now.

[complich8]

ahh, looks like that was reverted at the last patch and I never got around to re-applying.